Our evolutionary history. Men have largely had to fight & hunt and women to keep groups together happily. Evolved differently cognitively.
Girls speak before boys, have greater skills of empathy & they retain this advantage all their lives. Boys more spatial awareness.
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The latter seems to be related to testosterone with women who have higher testosterone doing better with spatial stuff than women with lower
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Women's brains have better communication between the lobes leading to better social & communication skills.
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Men's communicate better front to back & they rely on the left more heavily resulting in a more intense focus on one thing.
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From babyhood, it is seen that girls are more drawn to toys with faces & boys to toys with moving parts.
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This is supported by primatology - see Frans de Waal - where female chimps are peacemakers & male aggressors.
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But its most helpful to think of us as overlapping populations so we all know a woman who loves mechanics more than most men etc.
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